UPDATE: Last night, I was on MSNBC’s Countdown on the Pentagon, oil use, national security, and Earth Day — with a plug for my new book, “Straight Up.” Lawrence O’Donnell is filling in for regular host Keith Olbermann. Here’s the video:
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I hope someone uploads the clip .
Hi Aries,
Your in luck! COUNTDOWN video clips with Keith Olbermann [stand-in > Lawrence O'Donnell] will be posted tomorrow as is the normal practice!
Enjoy – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#36700666
ANOTHER PLUG ON EARTH DAY:
TREEHUGGERS has a posting all about ‘STRAIGHT UP’!
Linked below:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/straight-up-tackles-climate-blog-era-book-review.php
I’ll be watching, as always. Good luck.
Nice review Joe! You did a great job of packing the brief segment with key points.
Superb segment on Countdown tonight! Are news reports http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/13/algae-solve-pentagon-fuel-problem that the Pentagon plans to produce jet fuel from algae real? Will algae be a viable fuel source in the future? If we can grow our own we won’t need to drill as much which is a welcome relief. Many thanks for all you do!
Watched it! You did as much as possible in the brief air time alotted. I question the premise of the lead in that the Pentagon will lead the way, however.
Just saw you….Ted nation remember the internet the military led the way
Good job tonight. I look forward to reading your book.
Please check out and comment on my own blog postings (partially in verse) on climate change at http://newsericks.com/tag/climate-change, in particular my most recent one, http://newsericks.com/climate-information-abbreviation/
Damn, I need to find these clips now, Ibrahim go back to bed, grownups are talking.
wait, just saw it, great segment, lots of good talking points in there, great job of stressing climate change as a national security risk. You’re a hero Joe, and we’ll be keeping up the good fight as well.
Oh … Ibrahim,
Your heart is sick, your mind is blind and your spin is so very far off balance!
Any honest observer knows, we all live together in a world that is being overrun by OUR age-old lifestyle of plunder. We have a very short time [if any] to wake up and change OUR ways. And to prove you do not know of what you speak, Keith Olberman was absent and his stand in was Lawrence O’Donnell, a highly respected and knowledgeable television political commentator. A graduate of Harvard University, a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Democratic Chief of Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Finance from 1993 through 1995. In 1992, he was Chief of Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Most people will not respond to your lack of incite but most people know how misinformed your are. Calling a person a heathen speaks of the poison and bias that rules your life. A civil person will avoid the labels that your so foolishly fling! And in closing, you prove your ignorance when you spew you vitriol toward Dr. Joesph Romm! You ask no questions and offer no ideas or constructive thought. Apparently you are ruled by hatred toward anyone of knowledge that will stand up against the Fossil Fuel industry. The industry that is bent on the very destruction of OUR [your's & my] sustainable world. Hate merchants are not welcome here! For Shame!
Joe,
You did good. To short, but you managed to sqeeze in alot.
Yup, good interview. Could be used as training material for climate scientists who could use some media training to be able to get in their points and not be misquoted. Oh, and the power tie helped too!
First, the segment was short but most story #1 segments on Olbermann’s show are. Second, many have differing, and interesting, perspectives on the military, in part because so relatively few have served in it. Many on the right see a bunch of Top Guns while many on the left see a bunch of Dr. Strangeloves. As a former military officer, the truth is somewhere in between (though both views have some grain of truth….heaven knows I’ve run into each).
But the people in the military aren’t stupid, at least no more stupid than the population at large. They see the threats to our security and are working to mitigate them. As someone has already mentioned, the Internet was pioneered by the military, in large part to provide continuing communication capabilities should one or more parts of the network go down (hence the term “world wide web”). It took roughly 30 years for it to catch on with the mass public. So while things move more quickly today, we can probably expect the same sort of timeline, with today’s “exotic” energy technologies being widely adopted by around 2030-2040. Hopefully a lot sooner.
I’ve never confused James Inhofe with someone who’s truly concerned about our national security, other than the money that can be extracted for contractors. But I’d also advise my left of center and moderate friends to refrain from thinking anything coming out of the military is necessarily bad. It’s not. And I think the military will have a huge role to play in our future energy security. That sentence really shouldn’t have to be written (military and security should be synonomous), but in our hyper-politicized, “who cares about security I want my contract” world, sometimes basic concepts need reinforcement. I can assure you that many members of the military roll their eyes over some of these politically motivated contracts as much as we civilians do.
Great Job
I saw the clip just now. Great job, Joe!
Good luck at the Earth Day event on Sunday. I’ll be there, somewhere in the crowd.
Be Well,
Jeff
Excellent job Joe. I don’t think it was too short. You were extremely efficient in making your points, each point was strong and easily grasped. One value of keeping it short is that we can focus only on our strongest points which also forces the critics to focus on our strongest points.
Any time multiple ideas are presented in a debate, the deniers will focus on the weakest element and avoid the stronger ideas.
Countdown to Straight Up, eh? What did you say you were selling Jo-Jo?
Earth Day minus one… Perhaps we should start a count down to the day the first tripping point becomes obvious. Although we presently do not know that day exactly we do know it is inevitable and we should acknowledge it in some fashion. Start a lottery? Center for American Progress could hold the money and use the interest for its causes?
Every year the day of sustainability moves backward and is now months before the start of the new year. Those lost days must be recouped by our youth. The day of the tripping point means that there is no road out for humanity and it is out of our hands. Every year of current energy use took about one million years to accumulate.
The enemy is out there but has a face that too many do not recognize. It creeps on cat paws not tanks, planes and armies. It will take all of humanities efforts together to defeat.
It is the roll of the President, politicians, scientists, military and each of us that manages to get a glimpse of this foe to sound the alarm.
Happy EARTH DAY minus ONE…
cameline sativa oils? How many acres are they trying to produce this year? Looks like the military bought 100,000 gallons over 2 years which is the yield from 2,000 acres.
Way to short but very good video.
This Progress what the Pentagon does in the US on clean energy solution, should be adopted as standards by all militarys worldwide.
Joe, I normally download Countdown to my iPod every morning after the show airs and I was pleasantly surprised to see you were interviewed by Keith O’Donnel and right after Michael Moore too! Nice job Joe! How did it feel to be on the show right after Michael Moore?
[JR: Very cool! Different studio, though.]
Thanks as always, Joe.
It revealed a key messaging point. The strong, undeniable words are “risk” and “threat”. I think those should be repeated and repeated. When the deniers ask for proof, complain about models, consensus, emails, or whatever, just repeat risk and threat. The military speaks risk and threat, and when they recognize it, we listen.
Keep hammering the point: “the military recognizes the threats from global warming.”